"Learning How To Learn In the Age of GenAI" ... new 30 minute discussion of education & AI from Australia's national public broadcaster (ABC Radio National) - click here to listen: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Wired has just published an in-depth piece on Alpha Schools ... giving us a deep-dive on the realities of AI-driven schools sold on the promise of students plugged into personalised learning systems and doing ('crushing') a full day's schoolwork in only 2 hours: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

'What's At Stake? Young People's Take on AI and Education' - brilliant looking zine produced by young people in the UK telling education leaders & teachers what they want 'responsible AI' to look like in their classrooms. ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...

🎙️ Niels Kerssens & I talk about the platformisation of Dutch primary schools ... and how schools can reclaim a degree of ‘digital autonomy’ through new collaborative and non-corporate forms of ed-tech ... www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

"Ruinous EdTech – higher education and computing's excesses" - Colm O'Neill is giving an online seminar at Edinburgh Uni (Dec 11th) exploring how ed-tech can engage with ideas of digital degrowth, decolonial computing etc. Book your place now! www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/colm-o...

@neilselwyn.bsky.social “Young people spend way more time outside school, so really we should be talking about how parents and families regulate their children’s device use at home,” he says. “Unfortunately, this isn’t something that most politicians want to do." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It is two years on from many Australian states announcing school smartphone bans. I'm happy to have been included in today's Guardian article on whether the phone bans were the gamechanger we were told they'd be. FWIW, here are my full comments to the journalist: criticaledtech.com/2025/10/13/s...

Aidan Walker on why "now is *not* the time to ban phones ... why Jonathan Haidt sucks" howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/now-is-not...

One of the benefits of our kid's forced-exposure to 'AI search' results is that they are seeing GenAI/ Google Search deteriorate in front of their eyes. Now Google seems to have trouble with simply presenting symbols and words as humans understand them ...

Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social "The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.

Should teachers use AI to write emails to parents? ... listen to me talk with Brad Robinson about the rise of AI tools now offering to do teacher tasks, such as lesson planning, grading assignments and writing feedback. A way to 'work smarter' or a slippery slope?! www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

For those who don't know, I produce a podcast featuring some of the latest thinking in the critical studies of education & tech. We have just kicked off our third season with an episode on 'Technosolutionism' ... please take a listen & subscribe! www.buzzsprout.com/1301377

Frankie Focus is New York's mascot for phone-free schools, which is incredible but I feel like the design could have been work shopped a bit more.

Are you a PhD student whose work investigates digital technology in contexts of teaching and learning? Apply for our symposium! We are primarily seeking in-person presenters but have limited online slots available if you can't make it to Melbourne. More info: redi.deakin.edu.au/2025/09/call...

Speaking of @neilselwyn.bsky.social, check out today's blog post with Adriana Szili sharing "New resources for teachers and student teachers: AI Dilemmas": www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2dp8ng2... Materials include posters, handouts, & slides to help reflect on real-world dilemmas of AI in edu.

New @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club! I'm leading a discussion of @neilselwyn.bsky.social's new book "Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures" on Tues, Nov 11, from 8-9pm ET. Dr. Selwyn will be joining us too. Register at our events page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events

new podcast episode! Why does education keep falling for techno-solutionism, despite the fact that technology does not seem to drastically improve education? Listen to Dr. Ezechiel Thibaud talk through the perennial problem of 'techno-solutionism' in education ... www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

Literally the entire point of a tattoo is the human element and interaction. Working with your tattoo artist, personalizing your designs, its all so intimate and rightly so. Thats what its all about! Why do techbros try to ruin EVERYTHING?

🎙️ one of the great things about public broadcaster is having a half-hour radio program on the topics of "existential hope" & "digital degrowth" - very happy to have been involved! Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

new blog post: Thinking differently – rather than dismissively – about AI and education. ... excerpt from the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI & Education (out late 2026?) ... criticaledtech.com/2025/09/02/t...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

"De onderzoekers formuleren het scherp: AI kan rekenen, maar geen oordelen vellen. Waar AI enkel rekent, brengen leerkrachten redeneren, reflecteren, verbeelden en empathie" - lerenhoezo.be/2025/08/21/w...

Even Bitcoin never 'burst'. It just switched to quietly racking up environmental harm bsky.app/profile/keta...

AI Dilemmas for Teachers - *free resources & posters* ... a set of high-def colour resources featuring real-life examples from our research on teachers' experiences of AI ... Feel free to print off, share widely and use in your own professional learning sessions! www.monash.edu/education/re...

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

“How might we develop digital #technology that is better for people, communities and the planet?” Find out in Neil Selwyn’s ‘Digital Degrowth’. Out now! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @neilselwyn.bsky.social

We need to get more nuanced conversations going around AI and teaching ... as a start, we're producing a series of provocation posters featuring real-life examples that have cropped up in our ARC research on teachers' experiences of AI ... will post links to high-def downloadable versions soon!

We are now seeing the rise of AI-obfuscation apps ... such as this 'Don't Record Me' plug-in that injects your voice with random sounds to sabotage any AI-recording software that people might be using in the background ... who needs decent regulation, laws and public oversight! dontrecord.me

Absolutely loved this paper from Tanja Bosch - "As a method, decolonisation demands more than critique. It requires a commitment to building alternative ways of knowing, citing, collaborating and theorising that do not extract from the margins to enrich the centre"

"What is most outstanding about frugal innovation is not just that its technologies are impressive, but that it might actually prompt systemic change by showing people that tech can be developed locally, and not just imported from Silicon Valley" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a new paper coming out in the next few days about all of the work that teachers have to do around GenAI tools ... I'll post the abstract and link when it is out - for the time being, this quote from the article pretty much sums up our main conclusion!

A plea for the education community to "move beyond real ignorance in the face of the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence" ... www.bera.ac.uk/blog/the-env...

<<Estudios críticos en educación y tecnología... ¿Razones para tener esperanza?>> ... nuestro informe ha sido traducido al español, por favor léalo y distribúyalo a cualquier persona que crea que estará interesada bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...

Korean government looks set to give up on its much-heralded national 'AI textbook' policy after only a few months ... www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

"The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics" ... criticaledtech.com/2025/07/12/w...

Great introduction to radically reimagining what AI might be from a degrowth perspective ... "Degrowth helps us surface the logics underlying AI ... & invites us to imagine more relational, regenerative & plural ways of designing & governing digital systems": aiplanetaryjustice.com/publications...

Very happy to share my article published in @aunz.theconversation.com out today. Australia is on the precipice of rapid data centre expansion and communities need to be involved in how our data centre futures are imagined and realised. theconversation.com/australia-is...

"Teenagers & the data economy: understanding their dreams, desires & anxieties" ... not only is this a really interesting paper, but it is also looks great - wonderful visual design ... academic publishing doesn't have to look rubbish! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Estoy bastante sorprendido (pero honrado) de ser incluido en esta nueva colección de entrevistas políticas: grandes nombres incluyen a John Dupré, Tim Ingold, Martin Hägglund, César Rendueles y Mario Domínguez, Jo Guldi, Julia Lovell y muchos otros ... irrecuperables.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...

Schools, Datafication and the Rise of EdTech ‘Intermediaries’ ... for the last ETS podcast 🎙️ of the current season we are very pleased to be joined by Prof. Sigrid Hartong to talk about some these latest developments in critical ed-tech thinking! www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵 bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...

Hey Melbourne! I'll be there in a few weeks to do a book talk!! www.readings.com.au/events/emily... July 1, 6pm, at RMIT, with Dr. Kobi Leins as interlocutor.

📣 We're hiring an Associate Professor of Digital Education to join the Critical Digital Education Research Group and lead the Digital & Social Change pathway of our MSc in Education. Interested? Apply now! 🔗 bit.ly/4kwmqFQ Deadline: 6 June #Edusky #HigherEdJobs

Digital Degrowth session tomorrow afternoon in Warsaw! Do come if you are in the area ... inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/2025/05/o...

Helping students deal with disinformation & AI-generated slop is yet another thing that schools are now being asked to tackle. Listen to this new interview with information studies expert @olofsundin.bsky.social about what 'disinformation literacy' might look like: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

This is tomorrow - if you are (i) interested in digital education futures/sustainability and (ii) in the Copenhagen area then do come along!

We computers demand full employment (Klaus Staeck 1983)

"No easy answers ... what (social) science says about digitisation and schools" ... short chapter written for teachers in response to the Swedish government's demands to 'follow the science' regarding digital technologies in the classroom! Download link for PDF: bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/...